Pre-Production - Plot Detailing - Drug Culture

'Drug Culture' is a term i used to describe the current clubbing clubbing culture in my area. Seeing first hand how close friends have engaged in this culture and slowly faded into what they are today (which isn't good). The premise is basically this, you enjoy 'going out on the piss' with all the lads but somehow drink isn't enough. You thrive for a high that something like drinking cannot give you. You resort to taking pills, going out three or four times a week, realise that you can't fund your nighttime habits so resort to selling to fund their nights out. They hang around clubs and festivals with their little 'man-bags' acting suspicious and then they get caught out, with 60 pills in their bag and then wonder how their life has gone wrong.

'Drug Baggies'

Now that is me talking about how it would related to my film, let's look at it on a bigger scale. Esquire.com has a great article on 10 things you didn't know about the drug trade in the UK and has some great information in some common misconceptions about the drug trade, which is quite interesting. The article is derived from a book that is about how Britain got hooked on drugs.

"http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/books/5077/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-britains-drug-trade/"

Its a great article that really delves into some interesting facts about the industry, I'm going to highlight one specifically relates to my film and I want to focus on. 

This explains a lot about the current drug trade. To be a drug dealer you have to be ruthless, outgoing, and not afraid to get stuck in, otherwise just like any other competitive industry, you're gonna lose your spot. From what I heard from my personal experience, you can pay for drugs outright, or you can owe, obviously just like buying a car or financing one its always better financially if you pay for it outright as you don't owe. From what I know, ecstasy is big around kent and the south east, buying them in at £2 a pop and selling for £10. So if you have a good day, even if you only sell 4, that's fourty quid. that's a £32 profit. What student aside from it being illegal wouldnt be enticed by this? For a couple of hours work, this is big money, and you can get a lot of money to get by. Obviously the biggest mistake is re-funding your social life and not investing it, but I'm speaking from someone who actually has common sense and wouldn't do any of this at all. 

There are a specific type of drugs referred to colloquially as 'club drugs' which do exactly what they say on the tin. 'Club Drug Clinic' has a great article on the ideal of club drugs and what they are. Club Drug clinic is an official source from the NHS, so its possibly one of the more reliable sources.